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• Schedule crammed? Try searching your Calendar

  17 May 2012

  Now when is that neighborhood planning meeting and will it conflict with the business dinner your boss just asked you to attend? Your calendar is so full that scanning it won't help. You might not know that the Outlook Calendar has its own Search to help you sort out the dates. Search calendar items...
• Conditional Formatting: Highlight your most important mails

  10 May 2012

  ( Our numbers tell us that many people want to learn about conditional formatting in Outlook--a clear explanation is below--so we're moving this post back into the top spot to better share it with all of you. ) Last month I wrote about how to quickly create rules to help rid your Inbox of so-called graymail...
• Quick Rule Creation in Outlook 2010

  23 Apr 2012

  (NOTE: This post, which was first published in July 2010, is very popular. Obviously, a lot of you want help managing your overflowing inboxes and are turning to the Rules feature in Outlook to help you do that.) If you are a heavy email user like me, chances are good that you subscribe to a lot of mailing...
• 10 insider's shortcuts for Outlook

  18 Oct 2011

  Shortcuts are generally good: When training to do heart surgery? Not good. When developing software that helps people be more productive? Not good. When using software more efficiently? Good. These last two are obviously related: When the developers of Outlook created the program, they did not take shortcuts...
• Outlook Best Practices: Maintaining the system

  11 Oct 2011

  In this final video installment, Harry has really learned some effective time and schedule management, and he knows that all that depends on consistently applying the principles he's learned — fundamentals that can happen naturally after they become part of a normal routine. But Renée has...
• Start up Outlook to show ANYTHING but mail

  7 Sep 2011

  You're a rogue, a character, a one-of-a-kind. You care for neither paper nor plastic (as if). So maybe, when you open up Outlook for the day, you don't WANT mail to show up first. Why paint yourself into a corner, answering all those mails right away when you don't have to? Maybe you need to ease into...
• Office.com videos and articles help you master Outlook 2010

  18 Mar 2011

  I’m Bruce Keever from the Office Content Publishing team. We provide lots of information to help you be more productive with Outlook. Did you know that we’re continually updating and adding new Help articles, training courses, and videos to Office.com ? Through our partnership with BrainStorm...
• Free online video training courses for Outlook 2010!

  25 Oct 2010

  Have you visited Office.com recently? Microsoft offers free online video training courses that increase your Outlook 2010 productivity. Whether you’re new to Outlook, recently upgraded from Outlook 2003, or an experienced user that likes to organize your Inbox with the new Conversations view, there...
• Check Out These Conversations Videos!

  23 Dec 2009

  Hello, Office 2010 Beta users! A couple of months ago, Michael discussed the new Conversations arrangement in Microsoft Outlook 2010. We hope you’re enjoying using Conversations. Since the Conversations arrangement offers new capabilities for your Inbox , we want to share some videos to help you better...
• Announcing the Outlook Social Connector

  18 Nov 2009

  We are excited to announce the Outlook Social Connector! The Outlook Social Connector is a set of new features to help keep track of your friends and colleagues while enabling you to grow your professional network. The Outlook Social Connector is available now as part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta...
• Best Practices for Outlook 2007

  11 Nov 2009

  On the Outlook team, we are frequently asked: “what is the ‘right way’ to use Outlook?” Sure enough, there is no “right way” to work in Outlook—but, as the product team, we did design it with certain best practices in mind. Specifically, there are some best practices that make you more efficient at getting...
• Connecting to Hotmail accounts in Outlook 2010

  23 Jul 2009

  Hello everyone. My name is Alessio Roic and I’m a Program Manager on the Outlook product team here in Redmond. Today I will cover how to connect to your Hotmail accounts in Outlook 2010. In previous versions of Outlook, connecting to Hotmail accounts could be done using one of the following methods...
• What’s up with my Inbox in Outlook 2010?!

  20 Jul 2009

  Hello Office 2010 beta users! My name is Michael Affronti and I'm a Program Manager on the Outlook product team here in Redmond. We now have the opportunity to talk with all of you about Outlook 2010 and the amazing features we've been hard at work on over the last two years! Over the next couple months...
• Living in Outlook: Voting Buttons

  12 Jun 2009

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! I use Outlook to help me organize both my work and personal lives. Sometimes I need...
• Living in Outlook: Using Quick Parts

  2 Feb 2009

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! In previous posts I have talked about Message Templates and Advanced Message Templates...
• Preparing to be away

  24 Nov 2008

  Before you go on vacation or leave the office for an extended period of time (for example, before you leave for Thanksgiving), there are a few small things you can do to make your colleagues aware of your upcoming absence and to plan accordingly. Letting people know you are going away It is generally...
• Living in Outlook: Advanced Message Templates

  17 Nov 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! In my last blog post I talked about how I use Message Templates and how to create them. You may...
• Living in Outlook: Message Templates

  10 Nov 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! At my job, I often send team status reports to the same people, or have a specific message style...
• Living in Outlook: Multi-Day Calendar Views

  27 Oct 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! Most of the time, I keep my Outlook Calendar in week view so that I can quickly glance at my...
• Living in Outlook

  27 Oct 2008

  We’ve heard many of our customers say that they “Live in Outlook” – that they spend most of their work day using Outlook to help get their job done and organize all of their communications. It goes without saying that the folks on the Outlook Product Team here in Redmond live in Outlook too! We’re happy...